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Antenna transfer assembly with jam preventing inserts

  • US 6,335,708 B1
  • Filed: 01/24/2001
  • Issued: 01/01/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. In combination with an assembly having a passage formed therein between internal surfaces, a flexible antenna cable deployed or retrieved under selective drive control and a plurality of cable pulleys spaced from each other within said passage through which said drive control is exercised on the cable;

  • the improvement residing in means for preventing jamming of the cable by buckling thereof between the pulleys, comprising;

    a plurality of solid inserts floatingly disposed within said passage respectively in aligned relation to the pulleys to substantially fill the passage not occupied by the pulleys;

    said inserts being shaped in relation to the internal surfaces and the pulleys to block said buckling of the cable.

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